The Painter of Modern Life
1863 essay by Charles Baudelaire
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"The Painter of Modern Life" (French: "Le Peintre de la vie moderne") is an essay written by French poet, essayist, and art critic Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867). It was composed sometime between November 1859 and February 1860, and was first published in three installments in the French morning newspaper Le Figaro in 1863: first on November 26, and then on the 28th, and finally on December 3.[1] The essay inspired young artists to break away from academic art and to discover and innovate new approaches for representing and portraying the ephemeral nature of the modern world.[2]
See also
- Constantin Guys (1802–1892)
- Flâneur
Further reading
- Hyslop, Francis E. (1965). "Reviewed work: The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays, and Art in Paris 1845-1862, Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 24 (2): 324. doi:10.2307/427713. JSTOR 427713.
- McCall, Corey (2010). "The Art of Life: Foucault's Reading of Baudelaire's "The Painter of Modern Life"". The Journal of Speculative Philosophy. 24 (2): 138–157. doi:10.5325/jspecphil.24.2.0138.
- Hiddleston, J. A. (1992). "Baudelaire, Manet, and Modernity". The Modern Language Review. 87 (3): 567–575. doi:10.2307/3732920. JSTOR 3732920.
